The Philly Occasional
The Philly Occasional, Virginia Maksymowicz, Elizabeth Johnson, gerard f brown, Richard M Torchia, Sharon Garbe, Katie Dillon Low, Tom Csaszar, Andrea Kirsh, John Muse, Patrick CouéFresh from Philadelphia, observations about art and life from seasoned arts writers. Publishing occasionally, and, on occasion, more than that. Topics include culture, art, life, politics, newsy bits and fun. Direct from the keyboard to you.
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Hello from The Philly Occasional (No. 7)
Public Domain Image Archive / Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Dear reader,
There’s so much going on and so much to see that we decided to publish No. 7 sooner than our usual every-other-month schedule. Besides all the exhibitions, plays, conc...
Fall of Freedom: Artists in Resistance
Back in 1989, an undergraduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Scott Tyler, who had assumed the artist name Dread Scott, created a participatory installation called, What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?
For t...
Detours on the Way to Oblivion
Waste Scenes: Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales, through February 21, 2027 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Why can’t I forget the past, start loving someone new
Instead of having sweet dreams about...
“Elsewhere the Mountain: Hee Sook Kim and Landscapes of Belonging”
Hee Sook Kim develops her own way of describing elements of the ordinary world in conjunction with metaphysical and spiritual aspects of the world in a way that makes a certain sense of these mixed viewpoints. The images are contemporary an...
Elizabeth Keithline: “Puzzle” and “Keep It Together”
Elizabeth Keithline’s solo show, Puzzle (Wallkill River Center for the Arts), takes the long view, evoking current social disorder through interdependence of control and chaos in wood scrap assemblages. Building on her 2024 show Breaking Br...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Writers weigh in on art in Philadelphia and elsewhere. Publishing occasionally, and, on occasions.
Virginia Maksymowicz is a sculptor and arts writer who lives and works in Philadelphia. She has written for Philadelphia Artblog, Sculpture Magazine, Leonardo, Art & Artists, and many other publications.
Oil painter, art writer and guest curator in Eastern PA. elizabethjohnsonart.com. Paintings that mix distorted, jumbled images of people, landscapes and seascapes.
Richard Torchia is an artist and an independent curator.
Sculptor, writer, geometry enthusiast, admirer of small mammals.
I'm crazy.
Tom Csaszar is an artist, writer, and educator based in Philadelphia for forty years.
Art Historian, Arts Administrator, Curator, Writer
John Muse writes criticism, makes experimental films, paintings, and installation works, and teaches visual studies at Haverford College.
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